Definition

to recline (as a corpse or at a meal)

Etymology

from G303 (ἀνά) and G2749 (κεῖμαι);

Where the KJV renders it

• guest
• lean
• lie
• sit (down
• at meat)
• at the table

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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